South Korea to send K-pop singers including girl group Red Velvet to Pyongyang for rare concerts as nuclear tensions ease
K-pop girl group Red Velvet will join the 160-strong artistic group for North Korea shows
A group of South Korea’s K-pop singers will visit Pyongyang from March 31, the South said on Tuesday, a reciprocal visit after North Korea sent performers to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
The South Koreans, numbering about 160, will visit North Korea until April 3, the South’s Ministry of Unification said in a statement, for the first such performances in more than a decade.
The group will include K-pop girl group Red Velvet and music industry veterans Cho Yong-pil and Lee Sun-hee, the ministry said, after talks on the performances between the neighbours’ delegations at the truce border village of Panmunjom.
Cho was the last South Korean singer to perform in the North, at a concert in Pyongyang in 2005.
“While we’re on the stage, I believe it will be difficult to portray personal feelings towards denuclearisation,” said singer and record producer Yoon Sang, who led the South’s delegation at Tuesday’s talks.
